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Skeptical Teacher Displays Awesomeness at Skepchicamp!

Posted by mattusmaximus on March 9, 2010

Well, I’ve had a couple of days to process all that took place during the first Chicago SkeptiCamp, also known as Skepchicamp. In addition to outlining what I contributed, I’d also like to provide some of the thoughts & feedback from others in attendance…

As I told the audience, when I perform these demos for my students I’m not proving that there is no such thing as chi/ki/qi or whatever other New Age “life force” paranormal woo-woo is often invoked to explain these phenomena. Instead, what I’m encouraging my students to do is simply apply Occam’s Razor to the scenario: their understanding of basic physics is all that is necessary to explain things… no woo required.

Last, but definitely not least, there’s the post bed of nails photo of me displaying my sexy, bare & completely intact chest whilst a lot of pissed-off spirit orbs fly around (they must not like all the woo-bashing 😉 )…

Read on for other perspectives on Skepchicamp…

Akusai & Magus over at Action Skeptics did an awesome job of live blogging the entire event. If you want to get a great play by play of the whole thing, including detailed posts on the various speakers & their topics, go check out their posts.

So there you have it, physics awesomeness displayed by yours truly, a whole bunch of other great presentations, food & music, and just a general all-around good time had by all. I can’t wait until next year! 😀